Building telecoms infrastructure (ICT) in Seville, Spain: upgrade, repair and certificate

Building telecoms infrastructure (ICT) in Seville: what it is and when it needs work

The infraestructura común de telecomunicaciones (ICT) is the route that television, fibre broadband and telephone follow from the street or the roof to every home in an apartment building. When it is well built, nobody remembers it. When it fails or runs out of space, the usual problems appear: neighbours with no TV signal, providers unable to bring fibre in from the inside and facades covered in stapled cables.

We inspect, repair and upgrade the ICT of residential buildings in Seville and its metropolitan area, working with the property manager (administrador de fincas) or the president of the comunidad, the owners’ association every Spanish block has.

What we check in an ICT

• Lower equipment room (RITI) and upper equipment room (RITS): the rooms or cabinets where providers come in and where the TV head-end sits. We check their condition, ventilation and how tidy the equipment is.
• Main conduit: the ducts or cable tray that run up the stairwell. We see whether there is free space or whether they are clogged with dead cables from old providers.
• Floor and home junction boxes: the boxes where the signal is shared out to each flat and the entry point of each home.
• Television distribution: amplifiers, splitters and coaxial cabling to the sockets. If the fault is in the aerial, it is covered by TV aerials and satellite.
• Indoor sockets: television, data and telephone in each room. If you want more network points inside your home, we extend them with data cabling.

Typical cases in Seville

• Older blocks without ICT. In buildings from the 1960s and 1970s in Nervión, La Macarena or Triana there is no ICT as such: just a communal aerial, and each provider has opened its own path. We propose an upgrade that tidies the conduits and leaves room for fibre.
• Facades full of cables. A frequent complaint at owners’ meetings: fibre cables hanging down the facade or through the light well. With the shared conduit recovered, new cables go inside.
• New builds. In recent developments in Sevilla Este, Los Bermejales, Entrenúcleos or Mairena del Aljarafe the ICT comes ready; what owners ask for is extra sockets or a fix for a badly connected junction box after handover.
• Refurbishments. If the comunidad renews the stairwell, the facade or the building supply installations, it is the moment to prepare the telecoms conduit as well.

How we work

1. We visit the building with the president or the property manager and walk through the RITI, the RITS, the stairwell and some floor junction boxes.
2. We hand you a diagnosis of what works, what fails and what is worth upgrading, in order of priority.
3. We quote per project, with separate items so the owners’ meeting can approve the work in phases if it prefers.
4. We carry out the work, coordinating access to homes and notifying neighbours in advance.
5. We hand over the relevant paperwork, including the ICT certificate when the work requires it.

Price

ICT work is quoted per project. The number of homes, the state and free space of the conduits, whether the equipment rooms need fitting out or enlarging and how much TV distribution has to be renewed all affect the figure. We give you a fixed price after the visit, plus 21 % VAT, and you can see other references on the prices page.

Regulations

ICT installations are governed by Royal Decree 346/2011, the Regulation on shared telecommunications infrastructure, and by Law 11/2022, the General Telecommunications Act. The work and the certificate correspond to companies entered in the Register of telecommunication installation companies (types A and F). For the electrical side of the equipment rooms we apply the Spanish Low Voltage Electrotechnical Regulation (REBT).

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